Greater New Orleans

Chef Cody Carroll, who helms Hot Tails Restaurant in New Roads, is aiming for New Orleans' Warehouse District for his new project rather than continuing with his original plans to open a restaurant in Baton Rouge, according to the Baton Rouge Business Report. (Photo by Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)

Hot Tails owner and chef Cody Carroll has set his sights on opening a restaurant in New Orleans' Warehouse District, apparently nixing his plans for a new eatery in Baton Rouge, according to the Baton Rouge Business Report.

The New Orleans restaurant will be located on Annunciation Street near Tchoupitoulas Street, and Carroll hopes to open by the end of the year. He did not give details on either the concept or the name for the new restaurant.

Carroll, who operates the much buzzed-about New Roads restaurant with his wife, Samantha Carroll, had previously announced plans for a four-acre plot of land on Nicholson Drive in Baton Rouge, but he was unable to make the plans feasible for that location or find a second location that would work.

Cody Carroll has previously said he wanted to aim at "winning James Beard Awards" with the new restaurant.

"After months of dedicating all of our time to crunching numbers on Baton Rouge locations, a New Orleans opportunity arose," Carroll told the Report. "It is truly an opportunity we would have to be idiots to pass on. We want everyone in Baton Rouge to know that we tried everything we could to make this concept work in Baton Rouge."

Carroll said he is not yet ready to give up on the idea of one day having a restaurant in the Capital City, but the difficulty came in the size of the space versus how much investment the project would require.

"The problem with Baton Rouge came from the fact that we want to seat around 100 customers, not 300, and we just could not get the numbers to work," he said.